Refractive error among school children in Jhapa, Nepal

The patterns of refractive errors among the school children of rural and urban settings in Nepal.

INTRODUCTION The uncorrected refractive error is an important cause of childhood blindness and visual impairment. OBJECTIVE To study the patterns of refractive errors among the urban and rural school going children of Nepal. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A total of 440 school children of urban and rural schools within the age range of 7-15 years were selected for this study using multi-stage randomi...

Refractive error in school children in Campinas, Brazil.

Prevalence of refractive error in school children of Karachi.

OBJECTIVE To find out the prevalence of refractive error and the eye morbidity in the school children and the associated factors. METHODS One thousand students were selected from different schools of Karachi adopting two stage sampling technique. List of schools was obtained from Board of Secondary Education and 20 schools were randomly selected from the list in the five districts of Karachi ...

Screening for refractive error among primary school children in Bayelsa state, Nigeria

INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND Vision screening study in primary school children has not been done in Bayelsa State. This study aims to screen for refractive error among primary school children in Bayelsa State and use the data to plan for school Eye Health Program. METHODS A cross sectional study on screening for refractive error in school children was carried out in Yenagoa Local Government Are...

Uncorrected refractive error and associated factors among primary school children in Debre Markos District, Northwest Ethiopia

BACKGROUND Uncorrected Refractive Error is one of the leading cause amblyopia that exposes children to poor school performance. It refrain them from productive working lives resulting in severe economic and social loses in their latter adulthood lives. The objective of the study was to assess the prevalence of uncorrected refractive error and its associated factors among school children in Debr...